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Business analytics software and services provider SAS has chosen talent management specialist, Ochre House, to manage recruitment for its permanent roles in the UK for a sixth year in a row.

Global human capital management consultancy Penna expects profits for the first half of its financial year to be ‘significantly ahead’ of the same period last year.

Neil Wilson’s article on industry trends in Recruiter, 2 September, was excellent. In my humble opinion the industry has needed to change for far too long, though I’m not entirely convinced that we need more research to tell us this.

The proposed merger between BA and Qantas spells job losses for the travel sector, according to recruiters.

Technical recruiter Atlan Resource Solutions has released half year results for the year ended April 2009.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) grew from £236,000 to £538,000, a near 128% increase while revenues rose from £15.4m to £20.5m an increase of nearly 33%.

Large companies in food retailing are bucking the trend and are placing a strong emphasis on searching out the best in human capital, according to an executive search recruiter.

Recruiters are benefiting from jobs cuts in financial services as smaller companies take advantage of the situation to hire good quality staff, according to one recruiter.

Working long hours is no indication of how hard someone works, according to a new survey.

The survey, from T-Mobile and Kingston University Business School, shows that 59% of employers do not think how long employers work is an indicator of how hard they work, while 46% of employers offer no reward to those who work late or more than their normal hours.

Britain’s workforce is “woefully ill-prepared” to compete for jobs in the public sector – one of the few anticipating vacancies in 2009, according to Hays UK.

Hays believes that people looking for more job security by moving from the private sector are failing to recognise that they need to retrain or prepare for the different work ethos and pressures that they will face.

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